Ram 2500 SLT Crew Cab 4X4 offers compressed natural gas option - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
There are big trucks and monster trucks - no, not those with the giant wheels that crush cars in arenas - but really big trucks, like the Ram 2500 SLT Crew Cab 4X4, with a CNG option. That's a long name for a giant truck, but the key difference is that it runs on both gasoline and compressed natural gas. Formerly known as Dodge, the Ram is the normal three-quarter ton heavy-duty crew cab model with an 8-foot bed. It needs the long bed because it hauls along two large CNG tanks under a steel cover in the bed, just behind the cab. You can fill the tanks (130-liters each and equivalent to 18. 2 gallons of gasoline) via an outlet in the normal fuel filler area, or fill its 35-gallon gas tank in the same spot. Sadly, the test truck managed only about 10 miles per gallon on gasoline and the CNG gauge said it ran out after just a day or so. Yet when it was refilled, it still was nearly full. The truck's 5. 7-liter Hemi V8 is supposed to start on gasoline and then switch to CNG once everything is up to the proper temperature. The first two days I had it, the two lights on the dash that tell you which mode you're in would switch between CNG and gas. After that, and with the CNG gauge on empty, it ran strictly on gas. The Ram Crew Cab starts at $40,745, but the CNG option. Source: www.jsonline.com
